Kentucky Tenth District Senator Matt Deneen says he feels good about the progress that has been made as the Kentucky General Assembly’s 2024 session is now past the halfway point.
“I think the session has moved at a steady pace,” Deneen said. “We are actually picking the pace up here in this week and the coming weeks, of course, as we now have the budget from the House, and we are working through the budget issues systematically, one part of the budget at a time, so in the next few weeks we hope to have some of those things ironed out.”
Among the bills that the senate has taken action on is Senate Bill 20, for which Deneen was a primary sponsor.
“After working with our commonwealth attorney and our county attorney, and gaining the endorsements of several law enforcement associations that have unfortunately had to deal with this issue, we believe that Senate Bill 20 past the floor of the Senate and is now over into the House, and it will try those juveniles 15 and up that do commit violent gun crimes, it will transfer them to circuit court where they’ll be tried as adults.”
As the legislative session heads into its final weeks, Deneen says setting the state’s budget is the lead objective, while also focusing on developing projects.
“Infrastructure is a major point of contention here in our county and in several of the counties that have seen economic development lately, so we will be focusing on infrastructure spending needs,” Deneen said. “We will be looking at, of course, all budget issues, but our roads and our road plans we’ll be getting into as well.”
Deneen encourages anybody with concerns to contact his office, contact information for which can be found on the Legislative Research Commission’s website or the senator’s Facebook page.
